What is the best approach to specifying a page's language?
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I have read about a number of different tags that can accomplish this so it is very confusing.
For example, should I be using:
OR
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I don't think so; it's still working for me. Here it is in cleartext: http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/webmaster/archive/2011/03/01/how-to-tell-bing-your-website-s-country-and-language.aspx
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The link you supplied is broken. Has it been updated?
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The article addresses this. Setting the language in the content-language meta tag will override the lang attribute in the html tag or the title tag. They're recommending to use one method to set the language and stick with it, rather than setting the language in multiple places on a page.
So, setting the lang on the tag is fine, just don't set meta content-language tags that specific a content, or set the lang in your <title>tags.</p></title>
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I don't see them mentioning anything about
Does that mean it is not an acceptable option?
I swear I just read an article that advised using the html lang tag.
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They talked about this on the Bing Webmaster blog awhile back. You can read about it here. There is a priority order. The article states:
Keep in mind that the priority order for these tags is: , , <title>. In other words, the document location set in the “content-language” meta tag will always supersede the document location indicated in the <html> or <title> tag. Its best that you use one option, instead of multiple options here.</span></p></title>
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